EP2737640B1 - Vorrichtung und verfahren zur kombination von basisbandverarbeitung und funkfrequenzstrahllenkung in einem drahtlosen kommunikationssystem - Google Patents

Vorrichtung und verfahren zur kombination von basisbandverarbeitung und funkfrequenzstrahllenkung in einem drahtlosen kommunikationssystem Download PDF

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EP2737640B1
EP2737640B1 EP12817540.3A EP12817540A EP2737640B1 EP 2737640 B1 EP2737640 B1 EP 2737640B1 EP 12817540 A EP12817540 A EP 12817540A EP 2737640 B1 EP2737640 B1 EP 2737640B1
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  • the present application relates generally an apparatus and a method for processing of signals in a wireless communication system and, more specifically, an apparatus and a method for combining baseband and radio frequency (RF) processing of signals.
  • RF radio frequency
  • Millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems have been proposed to accommodate the explosive trends in mobile data demands due to the availability of large bands of spectrum. Millimeter wave's high carrier frequency facilitates packing many antenna elements in small form factors, thus enabling multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) processing with very large arrays.
  • MIMO multiple-input multiple-output
  • the concept of massive MIMO is believed to play a key role in future wireless systems.
  • RF chain radio frequency
  • antenna selection and equal gain transmission have been proposed.
  • Antenna selection does not fully utilize the spectral efficiency offered by large antenna arrays, and even more is not designed to provide multiplexing gain. While equal gain transmission generally performs better than antenna selection, it fails to approach the maximum data rate possible in the system.
  • equal gain beamforming solutions are limited to iterative algorithms that are not guaranteed to converge to a globally optimum solution. Therefore, there are very limited MIMO precoding designs that allow systems to approach capacity while satisfying the hardware constraints present in a millimeter wave transceiver.
  • precoding design and analysis such as equal gain transmission, often assumes idealized fading environments, such as Rayleigh fading.
  • scattering is limited by the large pathloss in mmWave systems.
  • the richness of scattering in the wireless channel does not scale with antenna array size. This makes idealized fading unrealistically rich, especially when very large tightly packed arrays are considered.
  • Realistic models, such as clustered channel models, have been proposed, though they are seldom used in precoder design. This outlines yet another shortcoming of existing precoding solutions, which is the lack of structure in the precoders.
  • an exemplary embodiment provides a method and an apparatus for enabling combined baseband (BB) and radio frequency (RF) processing of signals in a wireless communication system.
  • BB baseband
  • RF radio frequency
  • a method for performing combined baseband (BB) and radio frequency (RF) processing of signals by a receiver in a wireless communication system comprise receiving information for estimating a channel from a transmitter, identifying a plurality of paths in the channel based on the information for channel estimation, calculating an RF precoding matrix for precoding one or more signals to be transmitted from the transmitter on each of the identified paths, the RF precoding matrix comprising a phase shift, and calculating a baseband precoding matrix for precoding the one or more signals by a baseband precoder associated with the transmitter.
  • a method for performing combined baseband (BB) and radio frequency (RF) precoding by a transmitter in a wireless communication system comprises precoding, by a baseband precoder, a plurality signals to be transmitted, applying a phase shift to at least one of the plurality of signals in a plurality of RF signal processing, and transmitting the plurality of signals on a plurality of paths corresponding to the applied phase shifts.
  • BB baseband
  • RF radio frequency
  • a receiving apparatus in a wireless communication system comprises a receiver configured to receiving information for channel estimation from a transmitter, and a controller configured to identify a plurality of paths in the channel based on the information for channel estimation, calculate a radio frequency (RF) precoding matrix for RF precoding comprising a phase shift for one or more signals to be transmitted from the transmitter on each of the identified paths, and calculate a baseband (BB) precoding matrix for precoding the one or more signals by a baseband precoder associated with the transmitter.
  • RF radio frequency
  • BB baseband
  • a transmitting apparatus in a wireless communication system comprises a baseband precoder configured to precode a plurality signals to be transmitted, a plurality of RF chainsconfigured to apply a phase shift to at least one of the plurality of signals, and a plurality of antennas configured to transmit the plurality of signals on a plurality of paths corresponding to the applied phase shifts.
  • FIGURES 1 through 12 discussed below, and the various embodiments used to describe the principles of the present disclosure in this patent document are by way of illustration only and should not be construed in any way to limit the scope of the disclosure. Those skilled in the art will understand that the principles of the present disclosure may be implemented in any suitably arranged system or device.
  • FIGURES 1-3 below describe various embodiments implemented in wireless communications systems and with the use of OFDM or OFDMA communication techniques.
  • the description of FIGURES 1-3 is not meant to imply physical or architectural limitations to the manner in which different embodiments may be implemented. Different embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented in any suitably arranged communications system.
  • FIGURE 1 illustrates exemplary wireless system 100, which transmits messages according to the principles of the present disclosure.
  • wireless system 100 includes base station (BS) 101, base station (BS) 102, base station (BS) 103, and other similar base stations or relay stations (not shown).
  • Base station 101 is in communication with base station 102 and base station 103.
  • Base station 101 is also in communication with Internet 130 or a similar IP-based system (not shown).
  • Base station 102 provides wireless broadband access (via base station 101) to Internet 130 to a first plurality of subscriber stations (or user equipment (UE)) within coverage area 120 of base station 102.
  • the first plurality of subscriber stations includes subscriber station 111, which may be located in a small business (SB); subscriber station 112, which may be located in an enterprise (E); subscriber station 113, which may be located in a WiFi hotspot (HS); subscriber station 114, which may be located in a first residence (R); subscriber station 115, which may be located in a second residence (R); and subscriber station 116, which may be a mobile device (M), such as a cell phone, a wireless laptop, a wireless PDA, or the like.
  • M mobile device
  • Base station 103 provides wireless broadband access (via base station 101) to Internet 130 to a second plurality of subscriber stations within coverage area 125 of base station 103.
  • the second plurality of subscriber stations includes subscriber station 115 and subscriber station 116.
  • base stations 101-103 may communicate with each other and with subscriber stations 111-116 using OFDM or OFDMA techniques.
  • wireless system 100 may provide wireless broadband access to additional subscriber stations. It is noted that subscriber station 115 and subscriber station 116 are located on the edges of both coverage area 120 and coverage area 125. Subscriber station 115 and subscriber station 116 each communicate with both base station 102 and base station 103 and may be said to be operating in handoff mode, as known to those of skill in the art.
  • Subscriber stations 111-116 may access voice, data, video, video conferencing, and/ or other broadband services via Internet 130.
  • one or more of subscriber stations 111-116 may be associated with an access point (AP) (not shown) of a WiFi WLAN.
  • Subscriber station 116 may be any of a number of mobile devices, including a wireless-enabled laptop computer, personal data assistant, notebook, handheld device, or other wireless-enabled device.
  • Subscriber stations 114 and 115 may be, for example, a wireless-enabled personal computer (PC), a laptop computer, a gateway, or another device.
  • FIGURE 2 is a high-level diagram of transmit path circuitry 200.
  • the transmit path circuitry 200 may be used for an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication.
  • FIGURE 3 is a high-level diagram of receive path circuitry 300.
  • the receive path circuitry 300 may be used for an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication.
  • the transmit path circuitry 200 may be implemented in base station (BS) 102 or a relay station, and the receive path circuitry 300 may be implemented in a subscriber station (e.g. subscriber station 116 of FIGURE 1 ).
  • the receive path circuitry 300 may be implemented in a base station (e.g. base station 102 of FIGURE 1 ) or a relay station and the transmit path circuitry 200 may be implemented in a subscriber station (e.g. subscriber station 116 of FIGURE 1 ).
  • Transmit path circuitry 200 comprises channel coding and modulation block 205, serial-to-parallel (S-to-P) block 210, Size size N- Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) block 215, parallel-to-serial (P-to-S) block 220, add cyclic prefix block 225, and up-converter (UC) 230.
  • Receive path circuitry 300 comprises down-converter (DC) 255, remove cyclic prefix block 260, serial-to-parallel (S-to-P) block 265, Size N Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) block 270, parallel-to-serial (P-to-S) block 275, and channel decoding and demodulation block 280.
  • DC down-converter
  • FFT Fast Fourier Transform
  • FIGURES 2 and 3 may be implemented in software, while other components may be implemented by configurable hardware or a mixture of software and configurable hardware.
  • the FFT blocks and the IFFT blocks described in this disclosure document may be implemented as configurable software algorithms, where the value of Size N may be modified according to the implementation.
  • the value of the N variable may be any integer number (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), while for FFT and IFFT functions, the value of the N variable may be any integer number that is a power of two (i.e., 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.).
  • channel coding and modulation block 205 receives a set of information bits, applies coding (e.g., LDPC coding) and modulates (e.g., Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) or Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)) the input bits to produce a sequence of frequency-domain modulation symbols.
  • Serial-to-parallel block 210 converts (i.e., de-multiplexes) the serial modulated symbols to parallel data to produce N parallel symbol streams where N is the IFFT/FFT size used in BS 102 and SS 116.
  • Size N IFFT block 215 then performs an IFFT operation on the N parallel symbol streams to produce time-domain output signals.
  • Parallel-to-serial block 220 converts (i.e., multiplexes) the parallel time-domain output symbols from Size N IFFT block 215 to produce a serial time-domain signal.
  • Add cyclic prefix block 225 then inserts a cyclic prefix to the time-domain signal.
  • up-converter 230 modulates (i.e., up-converts) the output of add cyclic prefix block 225 to RF frequency for transmission via a wireless channel.
  • the signal may also be filtered at baseband before conversion to RF frequency.
  • the transmitted RF signal arrives at SS 116 after passing through the wireless channel, and reverse operations to those at BS 102 are performed.
  • Down-converter 255 down-converts the received signal to baseband frequency
  • remove cyclic prefix block 260 removes the cyclic prefix to produce the serial time-domain baseband signal.
  • Serial-to-parallel block 265 converts the time-domain baseband signal to parallel time-domain signals.
  • Size N FFT block 270 then performs an FFT algorithm to produce N parallel frequency-domain signals.
  • Parallel-to-serial block 275 converts the parallel frequency-domain signals to a sequence of modulated data symbols.
  • Channel decoding and demodulation block 280 demodulates and then decodes the modulated symbols to recover the original input data stream.
  • Each of base stations 101-103 may implement a transmit path that is analogous to transmitting in the downlink to subscriber stations 111-116 and may implement a receive path that is analogous to receiving in the uplink from subscriber stations 111-116.
  • each one of subscriber stations 111-116 may implement a transmit path corresponding to the architecture for transmitting in the uplink to base stations 101-103 and may implement a receive path corresponding to the architecture for receiving in the downlink from base stations 101-103.
  • Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a novel precoding algorithm for use in communication systems to provide highly-directional transmission resulting in spectral efficiencies approaching the theoretical upper bound of capacity.
  • the algorithms in accordance with the present disclosure can be implemented in low complexity hardware.
  • the algorithms in accordance with the present disclosure may be ideal for systems which employ large antenna arrays that are served by only a few radio frequency chains. The mismatch between array size and the number of RF chains introduces very stringent constraints on signal transmission which have mostly been overlooked.
  • FIGURE 4 illustrates a block diagram of a wireless communication system 400 in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Wireless communication system 400 includes transmitter 402 and receiver 404.
  • Transmitter 402 transmits signals at a transmit end in wireless communication system 400.
  • the transmitter 402 may be a transmitter in a base station (e.g. base station 102 of FIGURE 1 ) or relay station for downlink communication.
  • the transmitter 402 may be a transmitter in a subscriber station (e.g. subscriber station 116 of FIGURE 1 ) for uplink communications.
  • the receiver 404 receives signals at a receive end in wireless communication system 400.
  • the receiver 404 may be a receiver in a subscriber station (e.g. subscriber station 116 of FIGURE 1 ) for downlink communication.
  • the transmitter 402 may be a transmitter for a base station (e.g. base station 102 of FIGURE 1 ) or a relay station for uplink communications.
  • wireless communication system 400 is based on transmit ends and receive ends of communication paths in wireless communication system 400.
  • Various descriptions may discuss activities performed during downlink communication (e.g., the transmitter 402 being in a base station and the receiver 404 being in a subscriber station). However, such descriptions may apply to activities performed during uplink communication as well (e.g., the transmitter 402 being in a subscriber station, and the receiver 404 being in a base station).
  • one device e.g., a base station, relay station or subscriber station
  • the transmitter 402 includes a baseband precoder(or baseband precoding unit) 406, a plurality of transmitter RF chains 408, and a plurality of antennas 410.
  • the baseband precoder 406 precodes N s data streams onto signals for transmission by the antennas 410.
  • the baseband precoder 406 may include transmit path circuitry as described with regard to transmit path circuitry 200 in FIGURE 2 .
  • the transmitter 402 further includes a controller 412 that controls the baseband precoder 406 and a plurality of transmitter RF chains 408 as will be described in greater detail below.
  • each of the transmitter RF chains 408 apply different phase shifts 414 (i.e., F RF phase shifts) to the RF signals prior to transmission by the different antennas 410.
  • phase shifts 414 i.e., F RF phase shifts
  • N t RF is a positive integer
  • t indicates transmitter side
  • RF indicates that the chains process RF signals.
  • there are N t antennas 410 where N t is a positive integer and t indicates transmitter side.
  • the receiver 404 includes baseband combiner(or baseband combining unit) 416, a plurality of receiver RF chains 418, and a plurality of antennas 420.
  • baseband combiner 416 combines down converts RF signals and decodes and demodulates the signals at baseband to produce the N s data streams transmitted by the transmitter 402.
  • baseband combiner 416 may include receive path circuitry as described with regard to receive path circuitry 300 in FIGURE 3 .
  • the receiver 404 further includes a controller 422 that calculates precoding and combiner matrices and controls the baseband combiner 416 and receiver RF chains 418 as will be described in greater detail below.
  • each of the receiver RF chains 418 apply different phase shifts 424 (i.e., WRFphase shifts) to the RF signals after receipt of the RF signals by the different antennas 420.
  • N r RF is a positive integer
  • r indicates receiver side
  • RF indicates that the chains process RF signals.
  • N r antennas 420 where N r is a positive integer and r indicates receiver side.
  • baseband processing may be viewed as any type of digital processing, and RF processing may generally refer to analog processing of signals. While various embodiments are described as applying the phase shifts at RF, in other embodiments, the transmitter 402 and/or the receiver 404 may, instead of applying phase shifts at RF, apply phase shifts at some intermediate frequency (IF). As both implementations (RF processing and IF processing of analog signals) may lead to the same result (applying a phase shift), some embodiments of the present disclosure may apply analog phase shifts in a domain other than RF (e.g., IF).
  • IF intermediate frequency
  • A is a matrix; a is a vector; a is a scalar; A (i) is the ith column of A and a i is the i th element of a; A (-i) is the matrix A with the ith column removed; A* and a* are the conjugate transpose of A and a respectively, whereas AT and aT are their transposes; ⁇ A ⁇ F is the Frobenius norm of A and
  • Various embodiments of the present disclosure recognize that hardware constraints on RF chains may limit the amount of precoding capable of being performed at RF to that of phase shifting. Phase shifting is relatively easy to implement in hardware. Given the need for multiple RF chains in receivers and transmitters, limiting the amount of hardware needed in the RF chain may be advantageous in various embodiments.
  • the transmitter 402 first applies an N t RF x N s baseband precoder (i.e., F BB ) followed by an N t x N t RF RF precoder, (i.e., F RF ).
  • F 2 ] N t N r , ⁇ represents the average received power, and n is the vector of i.i.d noise.
  • the present disclosure implicitly assumes perfect timing and frequency recovery. Moreover, the present disclosure assumes that H is known to both transmitter 402 and receiver 404. Transmitter side information can be obtained via limited feedback. Additional description of the relevant channel model is discussed below.
  • N r RF > Ns RF chains are used to receive the Ns data stream.
  • Rn ⁇ n 2 W BB * W RF * W RF W BB is the covariance matrix of the colored Gaussian noise at the output of the baseband combiner.
  • transmitters may adapt to the channel at a much faster time scale governed by fading.
  • analytical models such as Rayleigh fading, are amenable to capacity and beamforming analysis, they represent scattering levels that are unrealistically rich for mmWave channels.
  • the present disclosure describes a parameterized channel model. For simplicity of exposition, each scattering cluster around the transmitter 402 and receiver 404 may be assumed to contribute a single propagation path. This is reasonable since most objects act as reflectors, rather than scatters, for example, due to the small wavelength of mmWave systems.
  • L is the number of rays
  • ⁇ l is the "complex gain" of the l th ray
  • ⁇ l r ⁇ l r and ⁇ l t ⁇ l t are the azimuth (elevation) angles of arrival and departure respectively.
  • the vectors a r ⁇ l r , ⁇ l r and a t ⁇ l t , ⁇ l t represent the normalized receive and transmit array response vectors at an azimuth (elevation) angle ⁇ l r ⁇ l r and a t ⁇ l t , ⁇ l t , respectively.
  • the present disclosure does not include in the arguments of a ULAy ( ⁇ ) as the response for such a ULA is independent of the elevation angle. All results carry over to arrays on the z or x-axes, (i.e. considering the y-axis is without loss of generality). Small form factors, however, may make large linear arrays impractical.
  • the present disclosure considers uniform planar arrays which may yield realistic antenna dimensions and enable beamforming in elevation.
  • Precoders are often designed to maximize the data rate achieved.
  • the achieved data rate may be expressed according to equation 8 below:
  • Optimal precoding solutions for the single user channel are based on the channel's singular-value decomposition (SVD).
  • SVD singular-value decomposition
  • Such precoders may employ arbitrary magnitudes and phases to the signal at each antenna which, in general, requires an equal number of RF chains.
  • this precoding may not be possible when RF precoding is hardware constrained to phase shifting.
  • SVD provides a well-defined performance upper bound that may be achievable according to the principals of the present disclosure.
  • the mutual information achieved by a suboptimal unitary precoder F ⁇ can be lower bounded as a function of the Fubini study distance from the optimal unitary precoder.
  • the lower bound may be expressed according to Equation 9 below: R F ⁇ ⁇ log 2
  • 2 + ⁇ i 1 N s log 2 1 + ⁇ i 2 ⁇ n 2 , where F opt is the unitary matrix obtained from the right singular vectors of the channel. Therefore, while perfect SVD-based precoding may not be possible for mmWave systems, the above bound on achieved rate may provide a criterion for constrained precoders with good performance.
  • the optimal MIMO limited feedback codebook known as the Grassmannian codebooks, directly targets maximizing
  • the present disclosure seeks to minimize the "distance" between the optimal precoder, F opt , and the effective layered precoders, F RF and F BB .
  • the present disclosure solves a more constrained version of the above problem in which F RF is further constrained to having columns from a finite channel dependent set of known candidate columns.
  • F RF is further constrained to having columns from a finite channel dependent set of known candidate columns.
  • SVD precoding which is often accurately called maximum ratio transmission, can be thought of as being an "optimal" combination of the signals travelling along the various propagation paths.
  • the resulting precoder is a baseband combination of only N t RF beam steering vectors and can be implemented in the transmitter 402 in FIGURE 4 .
  • the present disclosure simplifies the problem to choosing the optimal N t RF vectors from the set of candidate RF beamformers and then finding the corresponding optimal baseband precoder.
  • F BB may not have more than N t RF rows with non-zero elements, and thus may not "select" more than N t RF RF beamforming vectors. Therefore, by optimizing the "sparse" matrix F BB , the present disclosure may jointly select the best RF beamforming vectors as well as the corresponding baseband precoder, i.e. the baseband precoder will be the non-zero rows of F BB , and the RF precoder F RF will be the corresponding columns of ⁇ t .
  • the present disclosure formulates the problem of jointly designing the layered precoder into a "sparsely constrained" matrix least squares problem.
  • f ⁇ BB arg min f BB ⁇ f opt ⁇ A ⁇ t f BB ⁇ F + ⁇ * ⁇ f BB ⁇ 1 , where ⁇ * is chosen to achieve the needed sparsely level. Therefore, in the beamforming case, constrained least squares algorithms may be used to solve the relaxed problem above.
  • the present disclosure provides an algorithmic solution to the precoding problem of low complexity precoding via Frobenius norm minimization.
  • One example of pseudo-code for the precoder solution is given in Algorithm 1 as shown in Table 1 below.
  • the precoding algorithm starts by finding the propagation path along which the optimal precoder has the maximum projection and appends the column to the RF precoder F RF . After the dominant array response vector is found, its contribution is removed, and the algorithm proceeds to find the column along which the "residual precoding matrix" has the largest projection. The process continues until all N t RF beamforming vectors have been selected.
  • the algorithm would have: 1) constructed an N t x N t RF RF precoding matrix F RF , and 2) found the optimal N t RF x Ns baseband precoder F BB , which minimizes the residual Frobenius norm. Finally, the total power constraint is enforced in step 10.
  • Table 1 illustrates an algorithm (i.e., Algorithm 1) to jointly design F RF and F BB - via orthogonal matching pursuit in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the operation of the receiver was not considered or was effectively assumed to be able to apply a maximum ratio combiner to the received signal and "gather" the power received in all "directions". If this is not the case, then attempting to approximate an optimal precoder without consideration of the parameters of the receiver may yield undesired effects. For example, if a receiver with a single RF chain attempts to receive a single data stream and is restricted to applying a beam steering vector, separately designing the precoder to approximate Fopt and radiate power in several directions leads to a loss in actual received power. As a result, for a constrained receiver, the precoder design may need to account for the combiner used, and vice versa.
  • the orthogonal matching pursuit concept described above may be used to find a combining matrix that can be implemented by the receiver 404.
  • the combiner algorithm may be represented in the pseudo code for Algorithm 2 in Table 2 below.
  • the present disclosure may first consider which of the transmitter 402 and the receiver 404 has a lower number of RF chains.
  • the precoder and combiner algorithms may be run in succession at the receiver 404 according to the rules in equation 15 below: N RF t > N RF r ⁇ 1.
  • embodiments of the present disclosure start with the more constrained side between the transmitter 402 and the receiver 404 (i.e., the side with lower RF chains between the transmitter 402 and the receiver 404).
  • the precoding or combining matrix of the more constrained side is found first using orthogonal matching pursuit. Given the output, the remaining precoder or combiner then directly approximates the resulting optimal matched filter. If the receiver and the transmitter have the same number of RF chains, the controller 422 in the receiver 404 may calculate either the precoding or combining matrix first.
  • the device e.g., the controller 422 at the receiver 404 doing the calculation has knowledge of the channel matrix H.
  • the channel matrix "H" may have very high dimensions. However, the channel may actually have few variables. So long as the receiver 404 can estimate the angles of arrival and departure and complex gains associated with the various paths in the channel, then the receiver 404 can reconstruct the matrix H without ever explicitly estimating the channel matrix H's individual entries.
  • information for channel estimation is obtained at the receiver with the aid of training or reference signals from a transmitter. These signals are sometimes referred to as Channel State Information Reference Signals (CSI-RS).
  • CSI-RS Channel State Information Reference Signals
  • the controller 422 in the receiver 404 can calculate the precoders and combiners. Since precoders are to be used at the transmitter, however, the transmitter 402 must acquire similar knowledge. This is often achieved through feedback.
  • the receiver 404 may feed back information about the precoding matrices to the transmitter 402 for use in future transmissions. More accurately, the RF and baseband precoding matrices are calculated at the receive end and then are fed back by a transmitter at the receive end to a receiver at the transmit end.
  • wireless communication system 400 may include separate feedback transceivers at the receive and transmit ends.
  • a transmitter associated with the receiver 404 e.g., in the same base station, relay station, or subscriber station
  • the transmitter associated with the receiver 404 may be implemented similarly to transmitter 402, and the receiver associated with the transmitter 402 may be implemented similarly to receiver 404.
  • the information fed back to the transmitter 402 may be the matrices themselves. However, in various embodiments, to reduce feedback overhead, the controller 422 may associate the calculated RF and baseband precoding matrices to respective matrix identifiers in a codebook. In these embodiments, the receiver 404 may feed back only the matrix identifiers for the RF and baseband precoding matrices.
  • RI Rank Indicator
  • PMI Precoding Matrix Indicator
  • CQI Channel Quality Index
  • the rank indicator defines the maximum number of streams that can be supported, whereas the PMI defines the preferred candidate precoding vectors or matrix.
  • the precoding method provided in the present disclosure has a fundamental impact on feedback signaling since the precoding now is split into two layers, RF processing and baseband processing. Accordingly, some embodiments of the feedback structure used in conjunction with the precoding strategy of the present disclosure are illustrated in FIGURE 5 .
  • FIGURE 5 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary feedback frame structure in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • Feedback frame structure 500 is one example of a feedback message that may be fed back to the transmitter 402 to indicate the RF and baseband precoding matrices to be used in transmissions.
  • feedback frame structure 500 includes RF Steering Directions (RFSD) fields 502.
  • the RFSD fields 502 indicate the azimuth and elevation angles that are to be used by the transmitting in the RF precoding matrix F RF . Since the transmitter 402 has a number of RF chains 408, the receiver 404 will inform the transmitter 402 of a steering direction to be used at each of the RF chains 408.
  • Feedback frame structure 500 includes a Baseband Precoder Matrix Indicator (BBPMI) field 504.
  • BBPMI Baseband Precoder Matrix Indicator
  • the present disclosure combines a number of steering directions via a baseband precoder.
  • Information about the preferred precoder matrix to be used by the transmitter for baseband processing is encoded in the BBPMI field 504.
  • Feedback frame structure 500 includes Baseband Rank Indicator (BBRI) field 506.
  • BBRI Baseband Rank Indicator
  • the BBRI field 506 indicates the maximum number of data streams supported by the receiver 404.
  • Feedback frame structure 500 includes Channel Quality Index (CQI) field 508.
  • CQI field 508 carries information about the resulting channel quality and could be used for transmitter side decisions. For example, without limitation, this information may include scheduling and rate adaptation. In some embodiments, CQI field 508 may not be necessary to include in the feedback frame structure 500.
  • the wireless communication system 400 may utilize quantization codebooks to map the scalar and matrix quantities defined to a finite set of feedback symbols.
  • a scalar codebook may be used to quantize the angles in the RFSD fields 502 and another feedback matrix codebook can be used to quantize the baseband precoding matrix in BBPMI field 504.
  • the quantization could be performed at the output of the precoding algorithms or incorporated directly into the algorithm.
  • the matrix At defined in the algorithm can be populated by array response vectors in the quantized directions, for example, instead of the angles present in the channel.
  • feedback frame structure 500 in FIGURE 5 is intended as an illustrative example, and not intended to imply any physical or structural limitations on the various embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • each of the transmitter RF chains 408 is connected to each of the antennas 410, and each of the receiver RF chains 418 is connected to each of the antennas 420.
  • the RF chains may be connected to a set of antennas.
  • FIGURE 6 illustrates a block diagram of a signal processing device including RF chains connected to a set of antennas in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • the signal processing device 600 in FIGURE 6 may be a transmitter or receiver that implements combined baseband processing and RF beam steering as described in FIGURE 4 above.
  • RF chains 602 are connected to a subset of the antennas 604 for the signal processing device 600.
  • each of the RF chains 602 may use a separate subset of the antennas 604 to steer beams in a given direction.
  • the signal processing device 600 includes a layered RF/Baseband signal processing where the RF chains 602 allows the signal processing device 600 to steer the output of each RF signal processing chain 602 in a given direction, and the baseband processing chain 606 allows mixing the input of the various RF chains 602.
  • some minor modifications to the precoding algorithms described above may be made. For example, the fact that each RF signal processing chain 602 is only connected to a subset of the antennas 604 mathematically translates some of the elements of F-RF being equal to 0. More specifically, if antenna i is not connected to RF chain j in the receiver or transmitter, then the (i,j)th of F RF must be 0.
  • the present disclosure may, for example, set the corresponding elements of F RF to 0 after one has found the "unconstrained" solution applicable to the wireless communication system 400 in FIGURE 4 .
  • FIGURE 7 illustrates a process for calculating precoder matrices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the process depicted in FIGURE 7 may be performed by the controller 422 in the receiver 404 in Figure 4 .
  • the receiver 404 may calculate precoder matrices in accordance with the principals and equations described above.
  • the process begins by calculating the precoder matrix to be approximated assuming 1 RF chain per antenna (step 705). The process then determines whether the N t RF directions have been calculated (step 710). For example, the process may determine whether an RF precoder for each of the RF chains in the transmitter has been calculated.
  • the process calculates the residual precoder to approximate (step 715). For example, the process calculates the precoder for a direction that has yet to be calculated.
  • the process finds a next direction where the optimal precoder has a highest projection and adds the found direction to the RF precoder F RF (step 720).
  • the process then constructs the optimal baseband precoder F BB (step 725), with the process returning to step 710 to continue to calculate precoders for each of the RF chains in the transmitter.
  • step 710 if the number of calculated precoders is equal to the number of RF chains in the transmitter, the process proceeds to normalize the baseband precoder (step 730). The process then returns the constructed RF and baseband precoder matrices (step 735), with the process terminating thereafter.
  • FIGURE 8 illustrates a process for calculating combiner matrices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the process depicted in FIGURE 8 may be performed by the controller 422 in the receiver 404 in FIGURE 4 .
  • the receiver 404 may calculate combiner matrices in accordance with the principals and equations described above.
  • the process begins by calculating the combiner matrix to be approximated assuming 1 RF chain per antenna (step 805).
  • the process determines whether the N r RF directions have been calculated (step 810). For example, the process may determine whether an RF combiner for each of the RF chains in the receiver has been calculated.
  • the process calculates the residual combiner to approximate (step 815). For example, the process calculates the combiner for a direction that has yet to be calculated.
  • the process finds a next direction where the optimal combiner has a highest projection and adds the found direction to the RF combiner W RF (step 820).
  • the process then constructs the optimal baseband combiner W BB (step 825), with the process returning to step 810 to continue to calculate combiners for each of the RF chains in the receiver.
  • step 810 if the number calculated is equal to the number of RF chains in the transmitter, the process proceeds to normalize the baseband combiner (step 830). The process then returns the constructed RF and baseband combiner matrices (step 835), with the process terminating thereafter.
  • FIGURE 9 illustrates a process for calculating combiner and precoder matrices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the process depicted in FIGURE 9 may be performed by the transmitter 402 and the receiver 404 in the wireless communication system 400 in FIGURE 4 .
  • FIGURE 9 is an example of the operation of the wireless communication system 400 based on the rules and principals described above.
  • FIGURE 9 describes steps of channel estimation and feedback and ordering in which precoders and combiners may be calculated based on the capabilities of the base station and subscriber station.
  • the process illustrated in FIGURE 9 may be implemented during either downlink or uplink communication.
  • the process begins with the transmitter sending a cell specific reference signal (step 905).
  • the receiver estimates channel H using the channel's angular decomposition (step 910).
  • the receiver determines whether the number of transmitter RF Chains is greater than or equal to the number of receiver RF Chains (step 915).
  • the receiver calculates optimal SVD precoder wished to be approximated (step 920).
  • the receiver calculates a baseband precoding matrix F BB and a RF precoding matrix F RF (step 925).
  • the receiver station then calculates a baseband combining matrix W BB and a RF combining matrix W RF (step 935).
  • the receiver then feeds back information on channel quality and precoders F BB and F RF (step 940). Thereafter, data may be transmitted and received using the calculated precoders and combiners (step 945), with the process terminating thereafter.
  • the receiver calculates the optimal SVD combiner to be approximated (step 950).
  • the receiver calculates a baseband combining matrix W BB and a RF combining matrix W RF (step 955).
  • the receiver calculates F BB and F RF (step 965).
  • the receiver then feeds back information on channel quality and precoders F BB and F RF (step 940). Thereafter, data may be transmitted and received using the calculated precoders and combiners (step 945), with the process terminating thereafter.
  • FIGURE 10 illustrates a process for negotiating capability and configuration information to enable uplink and downlink precoding in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the process depicted in FIGURE 10 may be performed by the transmitter 402 and the receiver 404 in the wireless communication system 400 in FIGURE 4 .
  • precoding may require that the receiver have some basic knowledge of the transmitter configuration.
  • the receiver 404 can form the matrix At after the receiver 404 has acquired knowledge of the azimuth and elevation angles of departure. This implies that the receiver 404 knows information about the transmitter 402, such as, for example, without limitation, the number of antennas 410 at the transmitter 402, the dimensions of the antenna array (in case of multi-dimensional arrays), and the inter-element spacing.
  • the receiver 404 may ideally need to know the number of RF chains at the transmitter. Since this information is static, the overhead of exchanging this information is low, and the exchange can be done through an initial capability and configuration negotiation phase.
  • FIGURE 10 illustrates one embodiment of the initial capability and configuration negotiation phase. The process begins by determining whether uplink or downlink communication is to be performed (step 1005).
  • the base station sends BS TX antenna array and RF chain configuration information (e.g., N t , N t RF , Array dimensions, inter-element spacing) the UE during capability negotiation (step 1010).
  • BS TX antenna array and RF chain configuration information e.g., N t , N t RF , Array dimensions, inter-element spacing
  • the base station could embed this information in broadcast channel (BCH) transmissions.
  • BCH broadcast channel
  • the UE uses BS configuration information to calculate TX and RX processing, (i.e., F RF , F BB , W RF , W BB ) (step 1015).
  • the UE then feeds back information and parameters pertaining to F RF and F BB to be used by the base station (step 1020).
  • the base station and UE perform communication using calculated TX and RX processing, (i.e., F RF , F BB , W RF , W BB ) (step 1025), with the process terminating thereafter.
  • the UE sends antenna array and RF chain configuration information (e.g., N t , N t RF , Array dimensions, inter-element spacing) to the BS during capability negotiation (step 1030). For example, to inform the base station of the UE base station's configuration, the UE could embed this information in Random Access Channel (RACH) transmissions.
  • RACH Random Access Channel
  • the BS uses UE configuration information to calculate TX and RX processing, (i.e., F RF , F BB , W RF , W BB ) (step 1035).
  • the BS then feeds back information and parameters pertaining to F RF and F BB to be used by the UE (step 1040).
  • the base station and UE perform communication using calculated TX and RX processing, (i.e., F RF , F BB , W RF , W BB ) (step 1025), with the process terminating thereafter.
  • some capability or configuration information may not be available or perfectly known.
  • precoding can still happen in much of the same way at the expense of lower data rate performance.
  • the transmitter can leave a few RF chains unused. If the receiver assumes the transmitter has more RF chains than the transmitter actually has, then the transmitter can neglect some of the less dominant (smaller magnitude) columns of the baseband precoding matrix and its corresponding steering angles.
  • the receiver can calculate precoders assuming a best estimate number of antennas. This estimate will affect the accuracy of the RF steering angles used in the RF precoder but result in a minimal loss in data rate. This estimate does, however, assume that the receiver still has some knowledge of array design, such as inter-element spacing and whether the array is linear, planar, or otherwise.
  • the receiver does not have knowledge of antenna-array configuration information, such as inter-element spacing.
  • the receiver can, for example, calculate precoders based on an assumed array configuration, and the transmitter can then apply a transformation to translate the feedback information from the assumed array information to the actual array configuration. For example, all that may be needed in RF precoding is the steering angles.
  • the actual structure of the steering vectors may not be central to the performance of the precoder, provided that the correct steering vector structure is used at the end. Thus, some unknown information can be accounted for at the transmitter.
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • DFT discrete Fourier transform
  • the precoders to be used on each subcarrier therefore, will be highly correlated, and the favorable beam steering paths that would ideally be chosen for different subcarriers will, in all likelihood, be the same or similar.
  • each subcarrier can apply a different baseband precoder that best approximates the subcarrier's optimal precoder or maximizes the data rate that the subcarrier can support.
  • the wireless communication system 400 may select a set of steering directions according to a modified selection rule.
  • One example is that the precoding algorithm is run for all subcarriers, and the most common steering directions are selected for precoding. Other selection rules can be considered. Different baseband precoders are then calculated for each subcarrier.
  • FIGURE 11 illustrates a process for receiving signals using combined baseband and RF processing in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the process depicted in FIGURE 11 may be performed by the controller 422 and the receiver 404 in FIGURE 4 .
  • the process may be used in receiving uplink or downlink communication.
  • the receiver may be located in a base station, relay station or user equipment and may receive signals transmitted by a remotely-located transmitter.
  • the process begins by receiving information for a channel estimation(step 1105).
  • the information for channel estimation may be a reference signal or CSI-RS.
  • the process estimates properties of the channel (step 1110).
  • the process receives information about the properties of the transmitter (step 1115).
  • the receiver may receive information, such as, for example, without limitation, a number of antennas in the transmitter, a spacing of the antennas, and a number of RF chains in the transmitter, from the transmitter. This information may be received in the BCH.
  • the process determines a number of paths for communication (step 1120). For example, the controller associated with the receiver may determine the number of paths for communication as the smaller of the number of RF chains in the transmitter and in the receiver. Thereafter, the process identifies the number of paths in the channel (step 1125). For example, in step 1125, the controller associated with the receiver may identify the paths as the optimal set of paths based on the estimate of the channel and the number of paths determined above.
  • the process then calculates an RF precoding matrix (step 1130). For example, in step 1130, the controller associated with the receiver may calculate the RF precoding matrix for a transmitter to use in transmitting signals to the receiver. Thereafter, the process calculates a baseband precoding matrix (step 1135). For example, in step 1135, the controller associated with the receiver may calculate the baseband precoding matrix for a transmitter to use in transmitting signals to the receiver.
  • the process then calculates an RF combiner matrix (step 1140). For example, in step 1140, the controller associated with the receiver may calculate the RF precoding matrix for the receiver to use in receiving signals from the transmitter. Thereafter, the process calculates a baseband combiner matrix (step 1145). For example, in step 1145, the controller associated with the receiver may calculate the baseband precoding matrix for the receiver to use in receiving signals from the transmitter. In some embodiments, steps 1140 and 1145 may be performed before steps 1130 and 1135. For example, the controller associated with the receiver may calculate the combiner matrices before calculating the precoding matrices.
  • the process then transmits a feedback message (step 1150).
  • the feedback message may include the calculated precoding matrices, a codebook identifier of the precoding matrices, and/or information according to the feedback frame structure 500 described in FIGURE 5 above.
  • the receiver and the transmitter used in the uplink or downlink communication are located remotely from one another.
  • a transmitter or feedback chain associated with the receiver e.g., in the same base station, relay station or user equipment as the receiver
  • the feedback message may be transmitted on the RACH.
  • the process receives transmitted signals (step 1155).
  • the receiver may receive the transmitted signals from the transmitter, and the signals may be precoded at the transmitter according to the calculated precoding matrices.
  • the process then processes received signals at RF using RF the combiner matrix (step 1160).
  • the process processes received signals at baseband using the baseband combiner matrix (step 1165), with the process terminating thereafter.
  • FIGURE 12 illustrates a process for transmitting signals using combined baseband and RF precoding in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the process depicted in FIGURE 12 may be performed by the transmitter 402 and the controller 412 in FIGURE 4 .
  • the process may be used in transmitting uplink or downlink communication.
  • the transmitter may be located in a base station, relay station or user equipment and may transmit signals to a remotely-located receiver.
  • the process begins by transmitting information for channel estimation(step 1205).
  • the information for channel estimation may be a reference signal or CSI-RS transmitted to a receiver for the receiver to estimate the channel.
  • the process then transmits information about properties of the transmitter (step 1210).
  • the transmitter may transmit information, such as, for example, without limitation, a number of antennas in the transmitter, a spacing of the antennas, and a number of RF chains in the transmitter. This information may be transmitted in the BCH.
  • the process receives information indicating RF and baseband precoding matrices (step 1215).
  • a receiver or feedback chain associated with the transmitter e.g. in the same base station, relay station or user equipment as the transmitter
  • the feedback message may include the calculated precoding matrices, a codebook identifier of the precoding matrices, and/or information according to the feedback frame structure 500 described in FIGURE 5 above.
  • the feedback message may be received on the RACH.
  • the process then precodes a plurality of signals at baseband using the baseband precoding matrix (step 1220). Thereafter, the process applies a phase shift to each of the plurality of signals at RF based on the RF precoding matrix (step 1225). The process then transmits the plurality of signals on a plurality of paths (step 1230), with the process terminating thereafter.
  • Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a precoding algorithm that approaches the theoretical limit on achievable data rates in wireless communication systems.
  • the algorithm does so while satisfying all hardware constraints imposed by practical system hardware. Since these hardware constraints affect precoder design, they have been directly incorporated in the present disclosure, and no other existing precoding solutions exist for the same type of hardware constraints.
  • the algorithm is shown to provide significant improvements in spectral efficiency when compared to traditional techniques, such as beam steering in very realistic scenarios. Therefore, the algorithms in accordance with the present disclosure may provide such significant improvements when deployed in actual systems.
  • the present disclosure provides a reduction in feedback when compared to traditional MIMO beamforming. This has significant implications on feedback codebook design and frame structure. For example, consider a system with a 256 element square planar array (i.e. 16x16) at the transmitter that is to transmit 2 spatial streams to the receiver. In traditional MIMO systems, the precoder would be assumed to be uniformly distributed over the manifold of unitary matrices.
  • the codebook used such as the optimal Grassmann codebook, quantizes the optimal precoder, which is calculated at the receiver (which is assumed to have channel knowledge) and feeds the precoder back to the transmitter.
  • the 2 stream precoder for a 256 element transmitter has 1022 free variables that are jointly quantized. This makes such feedback impossible in large wireless communication systems (e.g., mmWave systems), and indeed vector quantization schemes are not commonly used or proposed for systems with more than about 8 antennas.
  • Embodiments of the present disclosure are unique in the inherent parameterization introduced into the large precoders, which decreases feedback overhead and replaces large vector quantizers with scalar quantizers and vector quantizers of much smaller size.
  • Such feedback decomposition and reduction is unique to the embodiments of the present disclosure and directly affect feedback amount and structure, and thus affect the air interface by the fraction of overhead allotted for feedback as well as the frame structure that results from decomposing feedback into scalar and small vector quantizers.
  • embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented based on the concept of orthogonal matching pursuit.
  • any other constrained least squares algorithm such as, for example, general basis pursuit or least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) may be used to implement the concepts of the present disclosure.
  • LASSO least absolute shrinkage and selection operator
  • the unifying idea of the present disclosure is to provide a precoding system that relies on steering multiple beams using RF processing and combines these beams at baseband in a way that aims at maximizing data rate.
  • the system can revise the design of the final baseband precoder. For example, instead of using the baseband precoder that the precoder approximation algorithm (OMP, LASSO, etc.) outputs, the system can recalculate another baseband precoder based on the SVD decomposition of the resulting baseband channel, W RF *HF RF *, for example. Other baseband solutions can be considered. In other examples, it is also possible to seed the algorithm with any similar matrix (i.e., similar to the matrix At which contains the paths in the channel), for example, such as a matrix of array responses for equally spaced look directions, which would arrive at a similar solution. Moreover, embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented where one terminal has enough RF chains to perform maximum ratio transmission or combining.

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  1. Verfahren zum Durchführen einer kombinierten Basisband- und Funkfrequenz-, RF-, Verarbeitung von Signalen durch einen Empfänger in einem drahtlosen Kommunikationssystem, das Verfahren umfassend:
    Empfangen (1105) von Informationen zum Schätzen eines Kanals von einem Sender;
    Identifizieren (1125) einer Vielzahl von Pfaden in dem Kanal auf Basis der Informationen;
    Berechnen (1130) einer RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix für ein Vorcodieren eines Signals oder mehrerer Signale, die vom Sender auf jedem der identifizierten Pfade zu senden sind, wobei die RF- Vorcodierungsmatrix eine Phasenverschiebung umfasst;
    Berechnen (1135) einer Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix für ein Vorcodieren des einen Signals oder der mehreren Signale durch den Sender; und
    Senden (1150) einer Rückmeldungsnachricht, umfassend Informationen über die berechnete RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix und die berechnete Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix an den Sender.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, ferner umfassend:
    Berechnen (1140) einer RF-Kombinationsmatrix zum Verarbeiten eines empfangenen Signals oder mehrerer empfangener Signale durch eine Vielzahl von RF-Ketten, wobei die RF-Kombinationsmatrix die Phasenverschiebung für jeden der identifizierten Pfade umfasst; und Berechnen (1145) einer Basisbandkombinationsmatrix zum Verarbeiten des empfangenen Signals oder der mehreren empfangenen Signale durch den Empfänger.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei ein Identifizieren der Vielzahl von Pfaden in dem Kanal umfasst:
    Vergleichen (915) einer Anzahl von RF-Ketten im Sender und einer Anzahl von RF-Ketten im Empfänger;
    Identifizieren, welcher vom Sender und Empfänger eine geringere Anzahl von RF-Ketten hat; und
    Identifizieren der Vielzahl von Pfaden im Kanal für die geringere Anzahl von RF-Ketten.
  4. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Rückmeldungsnachricht ferner Informationen über einen oder mehrere Strahllenkrichtungen für jede der Vielzahl von RF-Ketten im Sender umfasst.
  5. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, ferner umfassend:
    Empfangen (1115) von Informationen, umfassend zumindest eines von einer Anzahl von Antennen im Sender, einem Abstand der Antennen und einer Anzahl von RF-Ketten im Sender vom Sender; und
    Berechnen der RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix und der Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix auf Basis der empfangenen Informationen.
  6. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1,
    wobei der Empfänger in einer Downlink-Kommunikation verwendet wird und in einem Benutzergerät gelegen ist oder der Empfänger in einer Uplink-Kommunikation verwendet wird und in einer Basisstation oder Relaisstation gelegen ist.
  7. Verfahren zum Durchführen einer kombinierten Basisband- und Funkfrequenz-, (RF-), Vorcodierung durch einen Sender in einem drahtlosen Kommunikationssystem, das Verfahren umfassend:
    Senden von Informationen zum Schätzen eines Kanals an einen Empfänger;
    Empfangen (1215) vom Empfänger von Informationen, die eine RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix, die beim Empfänger auf Basis einer Vielzahl von Pfaden in dem Kanal berechnet wurde, der beim Empfänger auf Basis der gesendeten Informationen identifiziert wurde, und eine Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix angeben, wobei die Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix zum Vorcodieren einer Vielzahl von zu sendenden Signalen dient und die RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix zum Anwenden einer Phasenverschiebung für jeden der Vielzahl von Pfaden dient;
    Vorcodieren (1220) durch einen Basisbandvorcodierer der Vielzahl von Signalen auf Basis der Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix;
    Anwenden (1225) der Phasenverschiebung an den vorcodierten Signalen auf Basis der RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix; und
    Senden (1230) der Signale mit angewendeter Phasenverschiebung auf der Vielzahl von Pfaden.
  8. Verfahren nach Anspruch 7, wobei eine Vorcodierung, die durch die Vielzahl von RF-Ketten durchgeführt wird, auf die Phasenverschiebung für jeden der Vielzahl von Pfaden beschränkt ist, die in der RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix enthalten sind, und wobei der Sender die Signale mit angewendeter Phasenverschiebung in einer Downlink-Kommunikation sendet und in einer Basisstation oder Relaisstation gelegen ist; oder der Sender die Signale mit angewendeter Phasenverschiebung in einer Uplink-Kommunikation sendet und in einem Benutzergerät gelegen ist.
  9. Empfangsvorrichtung zur Verwendung in einem drahtlosen Kommunikationssystem, umfassend:
    einen Empfänger, der konfiguriert ist, Informationen zum Schätzen eines Kanals von einer Sendevorrichtung zu empfangen;
    eine Steuerung (422), die konfiguriert ist zum:
    Identifizieren einer Vielzahl von Pfaden in dem Kanal auf Basis der Informationen;
    Berechnen einer Funkfrequenz-, RF-, Vorcodierungsmatrix für ein RF-Vorcodieren. umfassend eine Phasenverschiebung für ein oder mehrere Signale, die von der Sendevorrichtung auf jedem der identifizierten Pfade zu senden sind; und
    Berechnen einer Basisband-, (BB-), Vorcodierungsmatrix für ein Vorcodieren des einen Signals oder der mehreren Signale durch einen Basisbandvorcodierer, der mit der Sendevorrichtung verknüpft ist; und
    einen Sender, der zum Senden einer Rückmeldungsnachricht, umfassend Informationen über die berechnete RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix und die berechnete Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix, an die Sendevorrichtung konfiguriert ist.
  10. Empfangsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 9, wobei die Steuerung angepasst ist, nach einem der Ansprüche 2 bis 6 zu arbeiten.
  11. Sendevorrichtung in einem drahtlosen Kommunikationssystem, umfassend:
    einen Sender zum Senden von Informationen zum Schätzen eines Kanals an eine Empfangsvorrichtung;
    einen Empfänger, der konfiguriert ist, von der Empfangsvorrichtung Informationen zu empfangen, die eine RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix, die bei der Empfangsvorrichtung auf Basis einer Vielzahl von Pfaden in dem Kanal berechnet wird, der bei der Empfangsvorrichtung auf Basis der gesendeten Informationen identifiziert wird, und eine Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix angeben, wobei die Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix zum Vorcodieren einer Vielzahl von zu sendenden Signalen dient und die RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix zum Anwenden der Phasenverschiebung für jeden der Vielzahl von Pfaden dient;
    einen Basisbandvorcodierer (406), der konfiguriert ist, die Vielzahl von Signalen auf Basis der Basisbandvorcodierungsmatrix vorzucodieren;
    eine Vielzahl von RF-Ketten (408), die konfiguriert ist, die Phasenverschiebung an den vorcodierten Signalen auf Basis der RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix anzuwenden; und
    eine Vielzahl von Antennen (410), die konfiguriert ist, die Signale mit angewendeter Phasenverschiebung auf der Vielzahl von Pfaden zu senden.
  12. Sendevorrichtung nach Anspruch 11, wobei ein Vorcodieren, das durch die Vielzahl von RF-Kanälen durchgeführt wird, auf die Phasenverschiebung für jeden der Vielzahl von Pfaden beschränkt ist, die in der RF-Vorcodierungsmatrix enthalten ist, und wobei die Sendevorrichtung in einer Downlink-Kommunikation verwendet wird und in einer Basisstation oder Relaisstation gelegen ist, oder
    die Sendevorrichtung in einer Uplink-Kommunikation verwendet wird und in einem Benutzergerät gelegen ist.
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